STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Culture: A Christmas Carol tuned in to today
Lurking beneath the festive jollity, the RSC's version of the Dickens classic is a salutary reminder of grim present realities, says GORDON PARSONS
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JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
A Christmas Carol
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
WITH the latest estimation that over 3.5 million children in Britain are living in poverty, Charles Dickens’s famous Christmas ghost story is a telling choice for the RSC’s seasonal show.
David Edgar’s sharply tweaked adaptation doesn’t need to labour contemporary parallels.
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SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys, with minor reservations, the Northern Ballet’s revival of its 1992 classic
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds the dogged determination of the Old Vic to stage Dickens’s classic Christmas moral tale in support of Waterloo food bank